Pier

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Pier

A man made structure extending from the shore against which vessels may lie to load or unload cargo.

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Then, turning over again, she shot past under the pier.

This fellow fell off the pier, and a girl brought him in.

Suppose you fell off a pier, and a girl took a great deal of trouble to get you to the shore, would you say, "Much obliged, but you needn't have been so officious.

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They'll be done by the time the pier is ready for them.

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A skiff, however, lay beside the pier, with some seamen sleeping on the thwarts; this, as Ransome told me, was the brig's boat waiting for the captain; and about half a mile off, and all alone in the anchorage, he showed me the Covenant herself.

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Her ladyship had been exceedingly ill in her carriage, and was greatly exhausted and scarcely fit to walk up the plank from the ship to the pier.

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The bars of the central way and the wrought-iron arch between the dark weather-stained stone piers were very rusty; and, though fresh tracks of wheels ran under it, the gate looked as if it had not been opened for a very long time.

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But if Langland did not rise high in the Church, he made himself famous in another way, for he wrote Piers the Ploughman.

There are several versions of Piers, and it is thought by some that Langland himself wrote and re-wrote his poem, trying always to make it better.

The first part is The Vision of Piers the Ploughman, the second is The Vision Concerning Do Well, Do Bet, Do Best.

In the beginning of Piers the Ploughman Langland tells us how

Two hundred years later, when The Vision of Piers the Ploughman was first printed, the printer in his preface explained alliterative verse very well.

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